Replying to LO29610 --
Dear Organlearners,
Andrew Campbell < ACampnona@aol.com > writes:
>My dear Friend At,
>
>You ask,
>"Who will put a stop to it?"
>
>No-one, in this world-wide---wide---domain, as long as
>'leaders' (sic) driving to their villas in Jaguars are saying
>that the world's... and with it Christ's ...suffering is also
>found in Porsches.
Greetings dear Andrew,
When i wrote that contribution, i wondered who will respond to this
sentence. The world's economy is like a bus of which its driver is
stepping the accelerator pedal as deep in as possible. The worst is that
the passengers are not aware of this and what will happen to the bus when
a treacherous stretch has to be crossed.
I should have known that you will respond to the most important sentence
in that contribution. Just yesterday the manager and owner (earning far
more in a month than i in a year) of a very prospective business showed me
his newly acquired 4x4. It was the most expensive brand available in South
Africa. He asked my opinion. I said that it is a beautiful piece of
engineering, but that i cannot ever afford it. Then, as an afterthought, i
said that i wonder whether i would buy it should i be able to afford it.
He replied that he did not want to buy it, but he had to buy it to get a
tax rebate on his massive income.
It made me think deeply. Even Income Tax (Revenue) Systems world wide
encourage the driver of every bus to step the accelerating pedal as deeply
in as possible. "Who will put a stop to it?"
>For some the almost unearthly notion of "both/and" is
>satisfyingly reducible to the notion, that you CAN have
>your cake and eat it.... at the same time. My 'sensations'
>tell me that we are in for some deep dying.
Dear Andrew, South Africa is a peculiar mixture of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world
conditions. Some of our roads are very good and some are bad. Some of the
busses can out pace and ordinary car and some are as slow as snails. Some
drivers are responsible people and others go into a trance after a while
when behind the wheel. Thus we often have serious bus accidents here.
However, afterwards when the stories of suffering are told, it concerns
the passangers. It is they who expected to arrive at their destination,
but many landed up in the morgue. Their suffering, although horrible, was
quick. But the suffering of their families for not having a bread-winner
anymore, will be for many years.
>How does it look around the world At, Winfried,
>Hanching, Dan, Mark, DP, TODAY. How does it look,
>smell, feel, sound, touch you all...TODAY
>At, what sits just beyond the edge of Care?
Irresponsible, self-centered bus drivers, driving too fast on treacherous
roads, having time schedules to meet.
What worries me is that so many consultants present the LO concept as a
bus capable of driving the fastest along the road of knowledge from point
A to point B. Do you think the driver of such a bus will stop when a
passenger exclaims: "Hey, this as a beautiful place. Let us stop and
explore it for a while"? I have been twice on a bus tour. It is the most
horrible experience possible. Planned stops revealing little exciting,
unplanned stops at exciting places impossible. This is not my idea of a
LO.
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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